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Chip-cooling Technology Achieves
'Dramatic' 1,000-watt Capacity
Science Daily July 2, 2008
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Purdue University researchers have
developed a technology that uses
"microjets" to deposit liquid into
tiny channels and remove five times
more heat (1,000 watts per square
centimeter) than other experimental
high-performance chip-cooling
methods for computers and...
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Engineers show nanotube circuits
can be made en masse
Nanowerk News July 4, 2008
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Stanford electrical engineers have
developed a method for making
integrated circuit chips with the
needed variety of logic gates on the
scale and with the parallelism that
the semiconductor industry must
employ to make chips that are
economical. The Stanford-devised
process involves growing nanotubes
on a quartz wafer and then
transferring...
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Why Fly When You Can Float?
New York Times July 5, 2008
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As the cost of fuel soars and the
pressure mounts to reduce carbon
dioxide emissions, several schemes
for a new generation of airship,
based on new materials and
sophisticated means of propulsion,
are being considered by governments
and private...
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Maybe Chicken Little Wasn't
Paranoid After All
New York Times July 6, 2008
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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
has estimated that a Tunguska-size
asteroid (just 90 feet across,
leveling some 800 square miles of
forest in Siberia) will enter
Earth's atmosphere once every 300
years and says there may be 375,000
objects of such size out there. NASA
only tracks potential "civilization
killers" of 1 kilometer (.62 miles)
or...
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Electronic Papyrus: The Digital
Book, Unfurled
New York Times July 6, 2008
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New technologies are developing
that make displays flexible,
foldable or even as rollable as
papyrus, so that large screens can
be unfurled from pocket-sized
containers. Polymer Vision's Readius
Flexible displays are thin,
lightweight and rugged and offer the
advantages of easy, relatively
inexpensive and safe shipping and
handling,...
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A Prosthesis for Speech
Technology Review July 3, 2008
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Boston University researchers are
developing brain-reading computer
software that is in the early stage
of translating thoughts into speech,
starting with vowels. An implanted
electrode picks up nerve signals
related to movement of the mouth,
lips, and jaw. These signals are
sent wirelessly to a computer, where
software analyzes them for...
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Do we have the technology to build
a bionic human?
New Scientist Tech July 4, 2008
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Scientists have developed artifical
bones, cartilege, lymph nodes,
hands, arms, some complete organs,
and even parts of the brain, but
there are potential downsides,
including immunorejection, possible
cancer (from stem cells), and
corrosion and wear and tear with
electronic devices....
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Laugh at High Gas Prices With a
282-MPG VW
Autopia Wired Blog July 03, 2008
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Volkswagen plans to build a limited
number of cars in 2010 based on its
235 mpg (282 in Imperial gallons)
One-Liter Car concept vehicle. The
design makes extensive use of carbon
monocoque fiber, magnesium,
titanium, and aluminum to minimize
weight (660 pounds)....
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